Re: [Bug-gnulib] GNU tar bootstrap fix to work around gnulib/gettext/autopoint confusion

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> The problem is that after tar's
> bootstrap script sets up tar's source files by copying many of them
> from gnulib, the autopoint command then overwrites some of the gnulib
> .m4 files (from gettext I think).  This is a bit of a pain to
> maintain.  Does anybody have an idea for fixing this more
> systematically?

autopoint makes a great effort to provide .m4 files that are known to
work together with the po/Makefile.in.in stuff. But here we are clearly
dealing with experimental overlap between gnulib-tool and autopoint.
I hope a more extensible autoconf/automake combination will someday
integrate all of gnulib-tool, autopoint, gettextize, libtoolize...

In other words, I see no better solution than to temporarily rename
the files before and after the 'autopoint' invocation.

Bruno